Can you document that process in words that an imgur user would be able to follow, including account creation etc.? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons exists, but is mostly just wibble about what it is and how to consume data from it, not how to add things to it.
I upload to Imgur (via MapComplete) because itâs the only mobile-friendly way Iâve found of adding images to OSM.
If anyone knows of a good alternative Iâd gladly switch! (not a fan of Imgurâs increasingly-obnoxious adverts )
Note: the Wikipedia Commons app is not available on iOS, and even if it were, assume itâd be a fiddly multi-step process to upload an image & link it to an OSM element? If so, it doesnât sound practical for on-the-go mobile editing.
Also, donât use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network.
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Well, as of now, it still works in a stable manner and taking backups still works. The total backup size is about 30GB. I hope IMGUR doesnât notice us before we made the switch to panoramax
@arctic-rocinante Iâm deliberately not informing users about what service the images are uploaded to, because that also gives the liberty to change this without much decorum. So it might suddenly switch to e.g. Panoramax, in which case Iâll also reupload all images to an instance and relink all of them. (Many of my users donât care about these details or donât even understand them. Iâm striving to do the right thing, but Iâm pragmatic too and donât have infinite time and energy)
Uploading to Wikimedia is not an option. They donât want hundreds of pictures of boring things, such as shops or bicycle parkings. Pictures for Wikimedia must have âencyclopedic qualityâ (which many MapComplete pictures donât have) and must depict âsomething noteworthyâ (which many objects donât have). See Upload pictures to Panoramax instead of Imgur · Issue #1451 · pietervdvn/MapComplete · GitHub
When I asked Wikimedia Commons community about this I got answer
scope is very broadly defined. Reasonable quality photos of public places are generally considered to be in scope. So, please go ahead and upload those photos
I can sort of see where @Pieter_Vander_Vennet is coming from. If youâre just taking photos for MapComplete, you may not be paying attention to angle, focus, lighting, composition â all the stuff that makes a half-decent photo. All that matters is whether the photo contains a glimpse of the information you intend to map. Itâs one of the reasons that, even though the Mapillary image license is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, Commons only has convenient tools for slurping up a Flickr userâs entire photo stream, but thereâs no similar âmass takeoutâ feature for Mapillary.
Some users do bulk-upload their dashcam footage to Commons, resulting in large categories of mundane objects such as the road sign gantries of Maryland. Someday Iâll get around to uploading the rest of my personal hobby horse, sidewalk markers in San Jose, California. Commons has absolutely no problem with this kind of photography, but I suspect they would if absolutely no curation went into it.
I think so. Assuming that images are described, geolocated and of decent quality.
Series of blurry images labeled âtreeâ would not be liked. Someone uploading thousands of categorized, labeled and described images of all trees in a given city should be fine.
If you have any indicator that it would be not welcome - please let me know! But I have seen people uploading various images series on large scale with no such reaction.
Though requiring users to properly locate and describe images, set categories may be still blocker!
The same for minimum quality.
(I commented here not because I think that MapComplete and Commons are ideal fit but because I have not wanted people to avoid uploading âmundaneâ images there. Recently I was using Wikimedia Commons and wished for wider variety of shop interior photos, some time ago I wished for more images of various barriers and road surfaces)
Thatâs me knackered then - something like this is useful to me because it has some into about the sign (the colour of one of the route markers indicates what route it is), but I suspect that a third-party site would object because itâs a terrible picture. For now Iâm just keeping image size down, storing my own pictures somewhere I control and linking to that.
Indeed, MapComplete can no longer upload images to IMGUR, so we quickly integrated Panoramax and upload to a custom instance.
I hope IMGUR doesnât notice us before we made the switch to panoramax
These turned out to be âfamous last wordsâ - about a week later we got blocked.
However, the issue still remains that some pictures are still on IMGUR. I propose to do a mass upload and to do a mechanical edit to update all tags at once
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